Plaiting-machine



J. F. PRANTA.

Planing-Machine. No. 224,285, Patented Feb. 10, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FRANTA, 0F urtwnuknnwrsoousm.

PLAlTlNG-MACHtNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-N0. 224,285, dated February 10, 1880.

Application filed May 9, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH F. FRANTA, of the city of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plaiting-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as. will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to,

letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings rep-' resents a top View of my invention. represents a side view of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for plaiting goods for dress-trimmings; and it consists in a substantial block having a smooth uniform upper surface provided with two series of metallic spring-plates arranged one above the other, with their flat surfaces on a line parallel to the upper surface of the block around which the fabric to be plait-ed is folded; also, in the peculiar device by which the spring-plates are secured one vabove the other to the block, all of which is further explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Arepresents a block of wood or metal. B are the lower series of metallic spring-plates, which are attach ed nearest to the upper surface of the block. 0 are the upper series of metallic spring-plates, which are similar in construction, and are attached in like manner to the block above the plates B. The springplates B and O are respectively hinged to the rods D and E, around which rods the. ends of the plates are respectively bent, as shown in Fig. 2. F are staples by which the rods D and E, respectively, are secured to the block A, and retained one above another .in the position shown, and by which the .plates B and O are retained at uniform distances apart upon the rods D and E. H is a rod for securing the front ends of the Fig. 2

" spring-plates B and 0 against the surface of the block A upon the fabric to be plaited. G are staples by which the rod H is retained in its proper position. They also serve to keep the front ends of said spring=plates at proper uniform distances apart. 7

In using my device the spring-plates B and O are all thrown back, in the position shown by plates 0 in Fig. 1, when one end of the fabric to be plaited is laid upon the block. Plate B is then brought forward upon the fabric and bent in the position indicated by the dotted line [,so that the front end of the plate may be inserted beneath the rod H. Thus the end of thefabric is retained between the block and the plate B, when the fabric is folded over the plate B, and thus retained by plate G, which is alsobrought forward upon the fabric thus folded, and its front end inserted likewise beneath the rod H,'when the fabric is again laid upon the block and the process thus repeated, as described, until so much of the fabric as requires plaiting is folded around the plates, when a warm sad-iron may be used upon the fabric thus folded, which causes the plaitin g to remain more permanently. When the plaiting process is thus .completed the rod H is withdrawn and the fabric is readily drawn forward from the spring-plates.

If desirous to make the plaits wider than the spring-plates, or to increase the distance between the plaits, the fabric may be folded around two or more of the spring-plates; or i one or more of the plates may be omitted when folding the fabric, and the fabric may be extended across the space to next plate, and thus the plaits made of such width or at such distances apart 'asmay please the taste. 1

Having thusdescribed my invention, what plates 0 and D, as secured one above another to the block A bystaples F and G, and rods D, E, and H, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of May, 1879.

' JOSEPH F. FRANTA; Witnesses:

F. v. KANDER,"

JAS. B. ERWIN.

vi'ded with staples F and Gr, metallic spring- 

